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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'It Shouldn't Take Fear of Dying to Make Us Live More Life' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-28. Transcript available.

Some people hear about near-death experiences, and tragically, a few people
will actually
do something risky with their lives, you know, up to even considering suicide.
And I think as I want to emphasize that people that have had near-death
experiences as a result
of suicide attempts learn almost uniformly during their near-death experience
that that suicide
attempt was a huge mistake. Virtually everyone that has a near-death experience
as a result of
an effort at suicide and then recovers will almost never attempt suicide again.
And why?
Because they understand life is meaningful. Life is important. They're here for
a reason,
even if their life is extraordinarily difficult. And by the way, if you commit
suicide and don't
have a near-death experience, you're much more likely, unfortunately, to
attempt suicide again
at some future time. Wow, really? Yeah. Well, also, if you're listening, you
didn't commit suicide.
That's a good point. You know, like, no judgment to anybody that gave it a run
or whatever,
you know. We're glad you're no good at it. Okay, that's good. But yeah, you
didn't do it.
This is pretty heavy here, Theo. But you don't have a lot of talks where things
get this deep.
No, and it's nice, though. I want to have more talks like this. And I think,
you know,
even us just talking about some of these things, like, I want to have more
talks about, like,
greed and why do we live in this space. Because I think some of the sickness
that we feel as humans
these days, that we, like, you know, there's a lot of emotional unwellness and
mental unwellness.
And I think a lot of it is just because of us, we realize, or we feel, and we
can't even maybe
put words to it sometimes, that we're sick of something we've created, a way of
being,
a way of treating each other. And even some of us are at fault. We're all part
of it. But we're sick
of it. I think we're, it's making us sick, but we are all stuck in it, kind of.
And we don't,
and we've never been able to see it before. But I think we're starting to be
able to see it a little
bit. Does that make any sense to you? Am I crazy? No, absolutely. I like what
you're saying. I think
there's, you know, there's sort of that sickness innate in humanity. I mean,
here we are,
you know, self-focused, focused away from other people, focused on our own
interests and our own
concerns, our own wealth, our own everything. I mean, it's literally, you're
getting down to values.
There's a sickness in the expression of values all around the world today. And
that's a sad thing.
It's, you know, globally, you could call it unloving. And yet here in near-death
experiences is that
consistent message pointing to that's not the way. That's not how life is to be
lived. You need to
think about your neighbor. You need to think about other people. You need to
reach out compassionately.
I mean, it's literally a profound message of hope for all of humanity. And in
fact, these profound,
deep messages in the near-death experience are, in my opinion, the most
profoundly positive message,
even conceivable, for all of humanity.
Wow. It's crazy that we have to almost die to get a message of how to live, you
know, that we have to
go, you know, we have all this life in front of us, every moment in front of
our eyes. And you have
to go that close to the, you know, to that white vulture of the Lord death and
go over there and
feed him birdseed out of your dang hand to just get a little bit of information
from him.
And yet I think we need to, if we do understand that that's the big picture,
that that's really
a part of our real eternal and infinite existence. And that we're all here to
learn lessons to move
closer to that greater reality that we have, that unity, that love, that
compassion. I mean,
I think that sets, you know, really a pathway that we can all think about each
day of our daily lives,
and maybe move one step closer to being our true selves, which is what we're
going to be in the
afterlife. So then why does this happen? Why are we on this leg of life, do you
think? Do you be able
to grasp, does anybody get that sort of information or it doesn't really go
there? It's just more of
this, okay, now I'm this, there's the opportunity when you die to get in, be
embraced into this
everlasting, this everlasting, warm, love, all knowing place. But do they get
any intel on why
we're in this realm now? Yes. I asked a specific survey question if during
their near-death experience,
they got any specific information about the meaning and purpose of life. So
Theo, I've had hundreds and
hundreds of people give that narrative response in direct answer to that
question. And what is fascinating
is that our earthly life, first of all, very important. What we learn here,
lessons about love,
relationships, what we experience is important, but way more important than we
could have possibly known.
It seems to ripple through an eternity and through the live souls of many, many
other people. So
that was fascinating for me to understand that as I kept getting these
narrative responses. So there is value to what we learn here,
that's what you're saying? Yeah, oh absolutely, there is value and it seems to
be extremely important.
And here's another concept which a lot of people wouldn't think of, and that is
you know, all we know here is our earthly life. I mean, this just seems to
sometimes drag on forever.
Yeah. But our real consciousness, our real beings, is that which is eternal and
infinite.
This physical earthly life that we're living seems to be the tiniest slice of
our eternal existence.
This is literally the one time during our eternal existence when we can know
non-eternity, non-infinity, limitations. What an interesting way to think about
it.
That is literally, as opposed to trying to be told or learn from other people's
experience,
there is no other way for us to learn all that we do in the physical, earthly
realm of life,
other than to experience it as a tiniest slice of our infinite existence.
Wow. Because yeah, you think like, man, I want to get back there where
everything's interesting.
But maybe when you're there, you're like, dude, we got to go back to earth
where everything's all
kind of piecemeal and weird and you got to figure it out and you hit puberty or
whatever and it's
strange, you know? Absolutely. I mean, it's only during a physical earthly life.
I mean,
in the afterlife, you're not going to have that anger. You're not going to have
that want.
You're not going to have suffering. You don't even remember any of that.
Oh yeah, absolutely. It doesn't matter if you saw somebody that you hated.
There's not even
the, all of that friction or whatever doesn't exist, I don't think, in the
afterlife.
Well, you've got that, yeah, but Theo, you've got that overwhelming sense of
love
and compassion and connection. I mean, you're really...
But do you think you would forgive somebody or you don't even have to forgive
them. It's just known.
It's, I think it's a, you, there's one thing that's overriding in the afterlife
is free will.
You have the free will choice to forgive someone or not to forgive, but shoot.
That's what they say in the afterlife?
Well, that's what we see for many near-death experiencers describing is you
have free will.
So you could still hold a grudge over there?
You, you would have, I think if out of free will, you would have the ability to
hold a grudge and yet I don't even know that I've seen any near-death experiencers
describe that.
In other words, this is completely off the scale in terms of love, peace, that
sense of connection,
that sense that on our earthly life, even if we made mistakes and geez, we all
did.
Oh yeah.
I know I did.
Oh, I know that those referees who didn't call that pass interference about six
years ago
when Drew Brees was in the playoffs.
Well.
I know that they did.
There you go.
Talk about mistakes.
I'm going to take that one in the afterlife, honestly.
Okay.
You might have a different perspective when you're in the afterlife.
You know what I thought about that?
I can let a lot of stuff go, man.
But those guys, they just, they should not have done, they should have figured
that out.
Well, anyway.
Maybe I will.
You're right.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, but you have the choice.
You'll probably have the choice to do that.
Okay.
And yet you'll understand that in a realm where literally the guiding force is
love,
that that might not be loving.
And so that might not be who you are at that point in time.
And I think it's, I know, it's tough to, it's tough to put yourself in the
mindset
of that infinite, eternal, beyond earthly love and unity that you have there.
But that's what I hear of times thousands.
No, I look, I think, I think that part relates to feelings that I've had under
some psychedelics
or under ayahuasca is just this all no, this, this, I can't remember if it's ayahuasca
or DMT,
whichever, it was something I haven't done them in a long time.
But where it felt like, yes, all this silly stuff of the world, this earthly
world didn't matter.
It's, but there, but then there must be some long-term thing to it.
But, but like you're saying, it does, it does matter to be here and exist and
go through this.
My friend, Megan Sheehy, she's like a therapist in Oregon, and she's really a
really neat thinker
and a deep thinker.
And she, she would say sometimes that some of our soul, some souls that you
come across
and some of our souls and maybe me and, and maybe you and are like baby souls.
It's like their first time doing the, the earth show, you know?
Yeah.
And so some, some souls you meet and they're just like, oh, some of them been
here a long
time maybe and they're, you know, they're smoking or whatever and they're, you
know,
they're complaining outside of the library.
But some of them, it's their, their first time and they're like, you know,
having a blast or just,
I don't know.
I thought that was kind of a interesting school of thought that she shared with
me one time.
Yeah.
It's a concept of old souls.
You know, I've heard of that before.
Right.
You've heard of that before.
I just never heard of young.
So I'd never really thought of the, the other side of it, that that's, that it's
some soul.
It's just like, they're fresh out of the back, you know, the, the, the bassinet.
And they're just, you know, well, if you have old souls, you have young souls
binary, but
again, I think it's all, you know, in the afterlife, I don't, I don't, you know,
I don't know if there's really a judgment or that it's so critical.
I think we're all here to learn there, you know, we're all here to share and
interact
with each other and learn from those relationships and grow from those
relationships.
I mean, that's going to be a part of the consciousness of who we are, what we
are, and, and literally
what we can share with eternal consciousness, you know, on an ongoing basis.
Yeah.
So it's really that important.
It's not just our consciousness.
It's what we can do as a group.
It's what we can, yeah, it's literally, there's a shared consciousness.
I love that.
There's a shared knowing.
And so that's, we talked about briefly earlier about like a ripple effect of
consciousness.
So what we do in earthly life, the choices we make, the love that we express is
actually,
literally rippling through eternity, far more important than we could possibly
know here.
Man, I love that.
That's such a great thought, man.
It's such a great theory too.
And it's one that we need to put out there more.
And I, I feel like we're getting more, I feel like that is gonna become, I
think we're starting
to realize that these, these ways of like immense greed and like putting each
other at like massive
amounts of people at pain for profit and just, and it just, there's no, what is
the long-term value of it?
Yeah.
Well, exactly.
I don't see anybody that think, what is the long-term value of oppressing a
people
Yeah.
Or of, you know, it's like, we have to be evolving out of that.
And it's like, I, I, I think a lot of us are starting to see that.
Like it does, cause the only way we all have to be here and it's like, we have,
you have to find a way
where it all works out, you know, and some of these, um, archaic ideas of greed
and of, uh, just, um, I don't know.
Well, I think about that stuff a lot.
I like that because after all, you know, the old adage, you can't take it with
you.
I mean, if you spend your life being greedy and hoarding and, and, you know,
material possessions,
none of that is going to exist in a physical afterlife, but what is going to be
a part of you,
your soul is going to be those loving outreaches you had.
It's going to be those times that you really showed compassion.
And that is going to be what helps define us, our eternal soul,
and will ripple out and be a part of us forever.

It Shouldn't Take Fear of Dying to Make Us Live More Life

Some people hear about near-death experiences, and tragically, a few people
will actually
do something risky with their lives, you know, up to even considering suicide.
And I think as I want to emphasize that people that have had near-death
experiences as a result
of suicide attempts learn almost uniformly during their near-death experience
that that suicide
attempt was a huge mistake. Virtually everyone that has a near-death experience
as a result of
an effort at suicide and then recovers will almost never attempt suicide again.
And why?
Because they understand life is meaningful. Life is important. They're here for
a reason,
even if their life is extraordinarily difficult. And by the way, if you commit
suicide and don't
have a near-death experience, you're much more likely, unfortunately, to
attempt suicide again
at some future time. Wow, really? Yeah. Well, also, if you're listening, you
didn't commit suicide.
That's a good point. You know, like, no judgment to anybody that gave it a run
or whatever,
you know. We're glad you're no good at it. Okay, that's good. But yeah, you
didn't do it.
This is pretty heavy here, Theo. But you don't have a lot of talks where things
get this deep.
No, and it's nice, though. I want to have more talks like this. And I think,
you know,
even us just talking about some of these things, like, I want to have more
talks about, like,
greed and why do we live in this space. Because I think some of the sickness
that we feel as humans
these days, that we, like, you know, there's a lot of emotional unwellness and
mental unwellness.
And I think a lot of it is just because of us, we realize, or we feel, and we
can't even maybe
put words to it sometimes, that we're sick of something we've created, a way of
being,
a way of treating each other. And even some of us are at fault. We're all part
of it. But we're sick
of it. I think we're, it's making us sick, but we are all stuck in it, kind of.
And we don't,
and we've never been able to see it before. But I think we're starting to be
able to see it a little
bit. Does that make any sense to you? Am I crazy? No, absolutely. I like what
you're saying. I think
there's, you know, there's sort of that sickness innate in humanity. I mean,
here we are,
you know, self-focused, focused away from other people, focused on our own
interests and our own
concerns, our own wealth, our own everything. I mean, it's literally, you're
getting down to values.
There's a sickness in the expression of values all around the world today. And
that's a sad thing.
It's, you know, globally, you could call it unloving. And yet here in near-death
experiences is that
consistent message pointing to that's not the way. That's not how life is to be
lived. You need to
think about your neighbor. You need to think about other people. You need to
reach out compassionately.
I mean, it's literally a profound message of hope for all of humanity. And in
fact, these profound,
deep messages in the near-death experience are, in my opinion, the most
profoundly positive message,
even conceivable, for all of humanity.
Wow. It's crazy that we have to almost die to get a message of how to live, you
know, that we have to
go, you know, we have all this life in front of us, every moment in front of
our eyes. And you have
to go that close to the, you know, to that white vulture of the Lord death and
go over there and
feed him birdseed out of your dang hand to just get a little bit of information
from him.
And yet I think we need to, if we do understand that that's the big picture,
that that's really
a part of our real eternal and infinite existence. And that we're all here to
learn lessons to move
closer to that greater reality that we have, that unity, that love, that
compassion. I mean,
I think that sets, you know, really a pathway that we can all think about each
day of our daily lives,
and maybe move one step closer to being our true selves, which is what we're
going to be in the
afterlife. So then why does this happen? Why are we on this leg of life, do you
think? Do you be able
to grasp, does anybody get that sort of information or it doesn't really go
there? It's just more of
this, okay, now I'm this, there's the opportunity when you die to get in, be
embraced into this
everlasting, this everlasting, warm, love, all knowing place. But do they get
any intel on why
we're in this realm now? Yes. I asked a specific survey question if during
their near-death experience,
they got any specific information about the meaning and purpose of life. So
Theo, I've had hundreds and
hundreds of people give that narrative response in direct answer to that
question. And what is fascinating
is that our earthly life, first of all, very important. What we learn here,
lessons about love,
relationships, what we experience is important, but way more important than we
could have possibly known.
It seems to ripple through an eternity and through the live souls of many, many
other people. So
that was fascinating for me to understand that as I kept getting these
narrative responses. So there is value to what we learn here,
that's what you're saying? Yeah, oh absolutely, there is value and it seems to
be extremely important.
And here's another concept which a lot of people wouldn't think of, and that is
you know, all we know here is our earthly life. I mean, this just seems to
sometimes drag on forever.
Yeah. But our real consciousness, our real beings, is that which is eternal and
infinite.
This physical earthly life that we're living seems to be the tiniest slice of
our eternal existence.
This is literally the one time during our eternal existence when we can know
non-eternity, non-infinity, limitations. What an interesting way to think about
it.
That is literally, as opposed to trying to be told or learn from other people's
experience,
there is no other way for us to learn all that we do in the physical, earthly
realm of life,
other than to experience it as a tiniest slice of our infinite existence.
Wow. Because yeah, you think like, man, I want to get back there where
everything's interesting.
But maybe when you're there, you're like, dude, we got to go back to earth
where everything's all
kind of piecemeal and weird and you got to figure it out and you hit puberty or
whatever and it's
strange, you know? Absolutely. I mean, it's only during a physical earthly life.
I mean,
in the afterlife, you're not going to have that anger. You're not going to have
that want.
You're not going to have suffering. You don't even remember any of that.
Oh yeah, absolutely. It doesn't matter if you saw somebody that you hated.
There's not even
the, all of that friction or whatever doesn't exist, I don't think, in the
afterlife.
Well, you've got that, yeah, but Theo, you've got that overwhelming sense of
love
and compassion and connection. I mean, you're really...
But do you think you would forgive somebody or you don't even have to forgive
them. It's just known.
It's, I think it's a, you, there's one thing that's overriding in the afterlife
is free will.
You have the free will choice to forgive someone or not to forgive, but shoot.
That's what they say in the afterlife?
Well, that's what we see for many near-death experiencers describing is you
have free will.
So you could still hold a grudge over there?
You, you would have, I think if out of free will, you would have the ability to
hold a grudge and yet I don't even know that I've seen any near-death experiencers
describe that.
In other words, this is completely off the scale in terms of love, peace, that
sense of connection,
that sense that on our earthly life, even if we made mistakes and geez, we all
did.
Oh yeah.
I know I did.
Oh, I know that those referees who didn't call that pass interference about six
years ago
when Drew Brees was in the playoffs.
Well.
I know that they did.
There you go.
Talk about mistakes.
I'm going to take that one in the afterlife, honestly.
Okay.
You might have a different perspective when you're in the afterlife.
You know what I thought about that?
I can let a lot of stuff go, man.
But those guys, they just, they should not have done, they should have figured
that out.
Well, anyway.
Maybe I will.
You're right.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, but you have the choice.
You'll probably have the choice to do that.
Okay.
And yet you'll understand that in a realm where literally the guiding force is
love,
that that might not be loving.
And so that might not be who you are at that point in time.
And I think it's, I know, it's tough to, it's tough to put yourself in the
mindset
of that infinite, eternal, beyond earthly love and unity that you have there.
But that's what I hear of times thousands.
No, I look, I think, I think that part relates to feelings that I've had under
some psychedelics
or under ayahuasca is just this all no, this, this, I can't remember if it's ayahuasca
or DMT,
whichever, it was something I haven't done them in a long time.
But where it felt like, yes, all this silly stuff of the world, this earthly
world didn't matter.
It's, but there, but then there must be some long-term thing to it.
But, but like you're saying, it does, it does matter to be here and exist and
go through this.
My friend, Megan Sheehy, she's like a therapist in Oregon, and she's really a
really neat thinker
and a deep thinker.
And she, she would say sometimes that some of our soul, some souls that you
come across
and some of our souls and maybe me and, and maybe you and are like baby souls.
It's like their first time doing the, the earth show, you know?
Yeah.
And so some, some souls you meet and they're just like, oh, some of them been
here a long
time maybe and they're, you know, they're smoking or whatever and they're, you
know,
they're complaining outside of the library.
But some of them, it's their, their first time and they're like, you know,
having a blast or just,
I don't know.
I thought that was kind of a interesting school of thought that she shared with
me one time.
Yeah.
It's a concept of old souls.
You know, I've heard of that before.
Right.
You've heard of that before.
I just never heard of young.
So I'd never really thought of the, the other side of it, that that's, that it's
some soul.
It's just like, they're fresh out of the back, you know, the, the, the bassinet.
And they're just, you know, well, if you have old souls, you have young souls
binary, but
again, I think it's all, you know, in the afterlife, I don't, I don't, you know,
I don't know if there's really a judgment or that it's so critical.
I think we're all here to learn there, you know, we're all here to share and
interact
with each other and learn from those relationships and grow from those
relationships.
I mean, that's going to be a part of the consciousness of who we are, what we
are, and, and literally
what we can share with eternal consciousness, you know, on an ongoing basis.
Yeah.
So it's really that important.
It's not just our consciousness.
It's what we can do as a group.
It's what we can, yeah, it's literally, there's a shared consciousness.
I love that.
There's a shared knowing.
And so that's, we talked about briefly earlier about like a ripple effect of
consciousness.
So what we do in earthly life, the choices we make, the love that we express is
actually,
literally rippling through eternity, far more important than we could possibly
know here.
Man, I love that.
That's such a great thought, man.
It's such a great theory too.
And it's one that we need to put out there more.
And I, I feel like we're getting more, I feel like that is gonna become, I
think we're starting
to realize that these, these ways of like immense greed and like putting each
other at like massive
amounts of people at pain for profit and just, and it just, there's no, what is
the long-term value of it?
Yeah.
Well, exactly.
I don't see anybody that think, what is the long-term value of oppressing a
people
Yeah.
Or of, you know, it's like, we have to be evolving out of that.
And it's like